Video Wednesday, Ig Nobel Edition

The 2010 Ig Nobel Ceremony (theme: Bacteria), which takes place Thursday night at Harvard University, will be streamed live on YouTube starting at 7:15 p.m. ET. People who prefer their science with a side of humor, like the folks at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, in Philadelphia, are planning their own viewing parties.  

If you’ve never had the pleasure of attending an Ig Nobel ceremony or watching video of one, we give you last year’s acceptance speech by Elena N. Bodnar, who shared the Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health for inventing a brassiere that can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks — one for the bra wearer and the other for a lucky bystander. In this case, there are two lucky bystanders, the Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Wolfgang Ketterle.